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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:12 am    Post subject: All aboard for seaside train trip Reply with quote
A GIANT Pacific locomotive will be hauling passengers into Cleethorpes next month.
Crowds are expected to line the route between London’s Kings Cross Station and the resort to get a glimpse of 70013 Oliver Cromwell when it pulls the Lincolnshire Coast Express on Saturday, August 22.
Passengers are paying as much as £179 for a return ticket.
A spokesman for train charter specialists the Railway Touring Company, of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, said: “This train commemorates the London Kings Cross to Cleethorpes trains, which ran in the 1950s and 1960s hauled by the then newly-introduced Britannia Pacifics.
“Unfortunately, the former Great Northern mainline has been closed north of Spalding for many years, but we will run via the East Coast Main Line through Newark, Lincoln and through to Market Rasen and Cleethorpes.
“Leaving Kings Cross at about 8.15am, it will follow the route of famous old trains such as the Flying Scotsman.”
The train is scheduled to arrive at Cleethorpes at 1.30pm, departing at 4pm.
When it reaches Doncaster, the steam locomotive will be replaced by a diesel which will take passengers back to London.
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